A tribute to the legends
This is a tiny gesture of gratitude to the one who gives us wings to fly high, inspires us to dream big, guides us to become better architects and humans, and still believes in learning from the best. The dreamer who dreams of beautiful buildings and shale them on the paper with a pen. Presenting all hand drawn sketches of famous architectural buildings by the man himself.
All architectural structures in this section are a rendition of original photographs taken from various internet sources.
DESIGNED BY: Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles. Hagia Sophia, officially the Holy Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque, and formerly the Church of Hagia Sophia, is a Late Antique place of worship in Istanbul. It served as a center of religious, political, and artistic life for the Byzantine world and has provided us with many useful scholarly insights into the period. Source: Wikipedia
ARCHITECT: Takashi Yamaguchi. The White Temple is a minimalistic sacred space designed by Takashi Yamaguchi is located to the northwest of Kyoto in Japan, about two hours from the city centre. In Japan, it has been customary to enshrine and pray only for the ancestors of the male line of descent. Source: Wikipedia
ARCHITECT: Tadao Ando. Also known as Chapel on the Water is a privately owned wedding chapel in Tomamu, Shimukappu on the island of Hokkaido in Japan. The chapel faces a large reflecting pool visible through a large floor-to-ceiling window in the Japanese architectural tradition of shakkei. Source: Wikipedia
ARCHITECTS: Baumschlager & Eberle. The Rohner harbor office building is a fascinating steel, glass and concrete configuration that appears to float in mid-air, echoing the form of a space capsule or a bird standing on one leg. Awkwardly elegant, the precisely designed building is composed of an eight-meter-long container-shaped shell of concrete that connects with the ground below by only a single slim footing. Source: Wikipedia
ARCHITECT: Richard Meier Designed to look like a ship, the south side of the church features three large curved walls of pre-cast concrete.[2] (The walls form segments of spheres.) Meier claims to have designed the church to minimize thermal peak loads inside. The large thermal mass of the concrete walls control internal heat gain; the result is less temperature variation, and supposedly more efficient use of energy. The walls are coated with a titanium dioxide-based cement. Source: Wikipedia
ARCHITECT: Richard Hein. Built directly over a butte, the valley stretches towards the horizon about 200 feet below. Besides it's beautiful figurative ties to the Catholic faith through it's structure on the solid rock, the giant cross that supports the structure of the glass is one of the notable characteristics of this chapel. Source: Wikipedia
ARCHITECT: Santiago Calatrava. The Sundial Bridge is a cantilever spar cable-stayed bridge for bicycles and pedestrians that spans the Sacramento River in Redding, California, United States and forms a large sundial. Source: Wikipedia
DESIGNED BY: Emperor Jalal-ud-din Mohammad Akbar. Fatehpur Sikri is well-known to house some of the best examples of Mughal, Hindu and Jain architecture. The structures depict a mix of craftsmanship of Bengal and Gujarat. Local quarried red sandstone, known as 'Sikri Sandstone' has been used in the construction of all the buildings. Source: Wikipedia
ARCHITECT: Frank Lloyd Wright. It is a Frank Lloyd Wright designed Usonian home that was constructed in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan in 1949 and 1950.[2] The owners were two public school teachers living on a tight budget. The 1957 landscape design is by Thomas Dolliver Church. The home is now on the National Register of Historic Places. Source: Wikipedia
ARCHITECT: Richard Meier. The Douglas House is located on a very steep slope overlooking the lake. The rear wall of the house, which faces the lake, makes extensive use of glass to provide maximum views. The house is built of redwood (vertical Tongue and Groove boards) and is almost completely white. Source: Wikipedia
ARCHITECT: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Farnsworth House is an icon of modernist architecture. The house was designed to be a serene island, a place of quiet reflection. Its interior and furnishings were all designed to provide a sense of connection to the landscape outside. Source: Wikipedia
ARCHITECTURE: Cycladic Architecture. Santorini is instantly recognizable for its whitewashed, cube-shaped buildings adorned with blue accents, steep cliffs and tangerine sunsets that light up the sky and sea. Picture Courtesy: Protyush Lala
Picture Courtesy: Protyush Lala
Picture Courtesy: Protyush Lala
Picture Courtesy: Protyush Lala
Picture Courtesy: Protyush Lala